Celebrity Skin and The Family For some of us who find we need respite from reality, escaping into the fantasy of music, movies, tv series, video games, dreams (through sleeping) etc. can become a habit at best and dissociation at worst. Vonnegut, in his book, “Farenheit 451” wrote about “The Family,” which resided in a…
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dVerse — Poetics Tuesday — When Little Devil Snickers
Front cover of the first US edition of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl (1964)Illustrated by Joseph Schindelman When Little Devil SnickersLookin for a Bit-O-Honey,strollin’ down Sweet Avenue,what did this Kit Kat see?Big Hunks, bending aleelbows at the cafe;Three Musketeersgeared in Medieval cosplay, Sugar Babies,Waxed Mustachio Twizzlers, Tootsie Roll Red Hots.Sweetart’s got a…
#FF — Escape
PHOTO PROMPT © Lisa Fox Escape “You’re doing it again.” Indeed, Robin is – bouncing off of the walls of fantasy, lost in rainbows, surprised caterpillars, and mysteriously webbed lairs of intrigue. “Robin!” She looks up from her phone, yanked back to a reality of Jerry’s grim expression of pained disappointment. When did he get…
TankaTuesday Poetry Challenge — Paradise (tanka puente)
Paradisegold light envelopspulses flesh in its rightnesspatience rewardedoblivious beyond heatinevitable ashes~Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it.~ reality riselike bile from a sucker punchcurled in a sick bedtear-soaked pillow, remembersonly the shiny apple top image: “APPLES OF EDEN” by Aurika Piliponiene. Bridge quote is from Chuck Palahniuk, from his novel, “Choke.”…
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